Speaker: Peter Tasker Peter Tasker is arguably the foremost authority on the Japanese equity market. Ranked by Japanese institutional investors as the top equity strategist in Japan for five years running (1992-1997), Mr. Tasker was Dresdner Kleinwort Benson's market strategist in Tokyo from 1983 to 1998. In 1998, he founded Arcus Investment, a fund management company specializing in value investment in Japanese securities. Born in the United Kingdom in 1955, Mr. Tasker first came to Japan in 1977 after graduating from Balliol College, Oxford, where he read first English literature, then law. Drawing on his long experience in Japan, he has authored critically acclaimed nonfiction in English - Inside Japan (1987) - and in Japanese - The End of the Japanese Golden Era (1992), Restructuring Japan (1993), Can Japan Survive? (1994), Japan 2020 (1997), and Japan In Play (1999). A frequent commentator on Japanese television and a columnist for Newsweek Japan for more than 10 years, Mr. Tasker has also authored three hard-boiled detective novels - Silent Thunder (1992), Buddha Kiss (1996), and Samurai Boogie (1999) - featuring a cash-strapped, engagingly jaundiced anti-hero, private investigator Kazuo Mori. Mr. Tasker's latest English-language novel is Dragon Dance (Kodansha International, 2002), a political thriller reminiscent of Richard Condon's The Manchurian Candidate. Your ticket for admission to Peter Tasker's BOOKNOTES presentation "Hard-Boiled Japan" will be a copy of Dragon Dance bought from our shop. Hardcover copies of Dragon Dance may be purchased at Good Day Books for two thousand six hundred twenty five yen (¥2625) each, tax included. |
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